Chapter 101: The Dust-Sealed Secret

  Yang Fan sank into thought for a moment before slowly opening his mouth: "I can neither confront Yangjia Fortress nor listen to their dispatches. For now, I can only drag things out slowly."

  "If they push me to the limit, humph... then I'll turn around and join 'Rainy Fog Manor', mixing in as a guest will be more than enough, at that time let's see what Yang Family Fortress can do to me?"

  A sharp glint flashed in Yang Fan's eyes.

  When he was a genius cultivator in the Condensation Period, he enjoyed enviable treatment within his family and had countless halos attached to him; when he became a waste person overnight, he suffered countless ridicule and sarcasm, and even the patriarch Yang Hong scolded him to get out.

  At this moment, he had just made some achievements in medical skills, and Yangjiabu immediately wanted to recall him, under the name of "wearing a crime and making merits", to serve the family.

  If Yang Fan agreed, wouldn't he be a dog, letting people call him over and shoo him away at will?

  "This plan is not bad. I suppose Yangjia Fortress will not use force against the young master either, and besides, your younger brother Yang Lue is also the current genius of the family?"

  Lin Zhong nodded and smiled.

  "In four or five days' time, I will make a trip to 'Ghost Corpse Mountain', during which you should take good care of the medical hall."

  Yang Fan instructed.

  ……

  Just then in the afternoon, a figure clad in black appeared inside the Pu Ai Medical Institute.

  This person looks somewhat similar to Yang Fan, with a hint of arrogance in his demeanor. He directly charged into the inner hall of the medical institute, and several doctors and apprentices didn't dare to block him.

  Yang Fan put down the jade tablet in his hand and said calmly: "What brings you here?"

  "Big brother."

  Yang Lei stood with his hands behind him, spitting out two words that exploded in Yang Fan's ears like a spring thunderclap. A powerful spiritual pressure suddenly condensed on his body, the air around him trembled, and the temperature dropped several degrees.

  Boom!

  Yang Fan suddenly felt a surge of pressure, his breathing was blocked, and his face showed a look of shock: "You... you've advanced to the Condensing Spirit stage."

  Concentration period!

  Yang Lei smiled slightly, recalling his spiritual pressure, the air around him returned to normal, and he said lightly: "Now I have entered the Condensation Period, and I am indeed the first true newcomer in my family."

  "When I entered a state of concentration, the first person I wanted to tell was you, big brother."

  Yang Lei took a deep breath and looked at his older brother in front of him, who was still in the initial stage of refining his Qi, with an extremely complex expression in his eyes.

  Yang Fan's eyes met his, and he seemed to see a few threads of sympathy and a few threads of accomplishment.

  "Why?" Yang Fan silently said.

  "Because, a long, long time ago, I had this idea......" Yang Lei's face showed a few threads of excitement and agitation, and he suppressed his emotions to speak in a calm tone: "When we were young, you were better than me at everything, I couldn't compare to you. What was even more heart-wrenching was that I could see that Father loved and doted on you more..."

  "Yang Lei! Don't slander your father."

  Yang Fan slammed his hand on the table, making a loud "bang" sound. His face was filled with anger and one of his hands started to tremble slightly.

  Father Yang Tian, since childhood has been the idol in the hearts of these two brothers. In Yang Fan's eyes, his father is the best person to himself in this life.

  "Hehe... Big brother, don't deceive yourself. My intuition won't be wrong. I can sense from Father's gaze that he values you more and has placed more emotional hopes on you, while I am just an ordinary woman's child."

  Yang Lei's breathing suddenly became rapid, his voice slightly trembling with emotion.

  Yang Fan fell silent.

  That's right, Younger brother Yang Lei is just the son born to an ordinary woman after Father came to the mortal world.

  "This is also a one-sided word from you, perhaps the fact is not like this, everything is just your own psychological illusion."

  Yang Fan said lightly.

  "Alright, alright!" Yang Lei sneered: "Then I'll tell you something else, about the precious site left behind by Father... Actually, I deceived you that day. Everything in that site, including the magic treasure, spiritual elixir, materials, jade slips and so on, all belong to Big Brother!"

  "What?!" Yang Fan's body shook with a big surprise: "These things were all left to me by Father?!"

  "Hmm, you think I'd deceive you?"

  Yang Lei plopped down onto the stool.

  "That...the jade pendant you gave me last time?"

  Yang Fan still found it hard to believe.

  Yang Lei coldly smiled and took out a white handkerchief from his storage bag, impatiently tossing it to Yang Fan.

  Yang Fan took over the white handkerchief and saw that there were two lines of small characters written on it, exuding a few points of spirituality:

  Lingxi jade pendant, left for my son Yang Fan.

  Signature: Liu Mengyan

  "At that time, the small jade pendant was wrapped in this handkerchief. Now it's returned to its rightful owner."

  Yang Lei sneered: "Big brother, are you still questioning now?"

  Yang Fan pinched this white handkerchief, his hands slightly trembling, and his emotions were somewhat unstable.

  "Liú Mèngyān... Could it be that she is my mother whom I have never met?"

  Yang Fan took a deep breath and barely suppressed the complex emotions in his heart, taking off the crystal-clear blue jade pendant from his neck.

  At this moment, he has confirmed that this thing was left by his mother whom he had never met.

  "Twelve years ago, Father sent you to Yangjia Fortress but left me behind...” Yang Lei continued to state, his face filled with resentment and discontent, muttering in a low voice: “Doesn't he know that I am also his biological son, with the same innate talent for cultivating immortality as him..."

  Yang Fan remained silent, unable to respond.

  "Later, under my repeated pleas and persistence, Mother finally relented and sent me to 'Yang Family Fortress'. From then on, I also began cultivating... However, unlike you, I didn't receive the same treatment, nor did I have a renowned master like Master Liu to guide me, or better spiritual elixirs and techniques. As a result, with the same innate talent, I fell behind you... Once again, I lost to you!"

  "I'm not convinced! Why? Why is heaven so unfair!"

  Yang Lei's face was twisted in a scowl, he raised his head to the sky, his voice trembling, and vented out the resentment and grievances that had been accumulating for over a decade.

  "You had these thoughts in your mind, why didn't you tell me earlier." Yang Fan gazed at his younger brother.

  Yang Lei slowly regained his composure and said in a low voice, "Although I've lost to you time and again, and felt unhappy about it, but deep down, I've always known that Big Brother is the best for me, treating me with genuine kindness just like Mother."

  "... On that snowy night, we fought against two demonic cultivators. Big brother took the fatal blow from one of them to save me."

  "Although I am resentful in my heart, the only one I hate is Father. I resent the injustice of heaven, but I dare not reveal these thoughts in front of my elder brother, and even feel a little ashamed..."

  Yang Lei's voice gradually became lower.

  "If so, why did you want to monopolize what your father left behind."

  Yang Fan's face showed a complex expression. He had never expected that his brother, with whom he spent every day, would have such a side deep down inside.

  Yang Lei suppressed his emotions and regained his calm and arrogant demeanor: "The reason why Big Brother can repeatedly defeat me is only because he has the advantage of being favored by heaven, having Father's care, and having a famous teacher's guidance... Now, I will take these things as my own, and I will be able to completely surpass you."

  "I'm seventeen now and have entered a period of focused study, a year earlier than my older brother was at this stage."

  Yang Lei's mouth corners slightly pursed, and his body exuded a few more threads of pride.

  Yang Fan entered the Condensation Period a year ago, when he was eighteen years old.

  In this sense, Yang Lei seems to have really surpassed his elder brother Yang Fan.

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